Happy Hour

"IF A LIFETIME CAN BE LIKENED TO A DAY, THEN THIS IS HAPPY HOUR!"
BUCK PENNINGTON

Mother, Mother Ocean

Mother, Mother Ocean, I've heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
In your belly you hold the treasures, few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred year's too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

Yoda

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

Counted the Stars

Counted the stars on the 4th of July
Wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind
I have these pictures and I keep these photographs
To remind me of a time
These pictures and these photographs
Let me know I'm doin' fine
We used to be so happy once upon a time
Once upon a time
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
And the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line

""SOME SEE A GLASS AS HALF FULL, SOME SEE IT AS HALF EMPTY, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO’S DRINKING MY RUM."
Rumbear

Saturday, October 13, 2012

California Political Review: How California lost it's mojo.

Pretty good piece here. It is of  interest as I live here, ya know.
I admit that it is a good place to live and work for the most part. All kinds of things to see and do within a few hours drive of where I do live.
But it has been hammered lately. I admit that I am lucky being a DOD employee.
But hit the link and have a read...........................
Make up your own mind as always.
How California lost it's Mojo from California Political Review.
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Fredd said...

I read Bill Watkins article, Chief. The data is good, but the analysis is incomplete, and actually sophomoric.

Not once in this piece does Dr. Watkins mention politics: the very reason that California has lost it's mojo.

And this guy is an economist, and he misses the very answer as to why that mojo went away: the economic principle of elasticity.\

Without going into mind numbing theory on elasticity, basically liberal politicians in CA have promised to take the seemingly never ending taxes confiscated from entreprenuers who love the weather so much that they will put up with nearly anything, and give this legally confiscated booty to the downtrodden in exchange for votes.

They assumed that the hard working entreprenuers would never leave, no matter how much they were squeezed, because of the weather (the ignoring of the pain of excess taxation could be described as inelastic). And accordingly, the liberal politicians could stay in power forever.

WRong.

It had to reach a point, where even aboriginal Californian entreprenuers would say enough is enough, I'll miss the sunshine, but I'm moving to Fargo or Boise.

And that time is now. Nowhere in that article is this undeniable and obvious truth.

That professor is a liberal idiot, who can't see the forest for the trees, Chief.

Saturday, October 13, 2012 5:52:00 PM

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